LEST WE FORGET
Flying Officer Colin Joseph TROUT
Service No: 437888
Born: Glenelg SA, 12 August 1914
Enlisted in the RAAF: 3 April 1943
Unit: No. 1 Operational Training Unit, RAAF Station East Sale VIC
Died: Illness, Melbourne VIC, 5 December 1944, Aged 30 Years
Buried: Springvale War Cemetery, VIC
CWGC Additional Information: Son of John Percival Victor and Hilda Trout, of Glenelg, South Australia; husband of Hazel Francis Trout. of Glenelg
Roll of Honour: Glenelg SA
Remembered: Panel 115, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
Remembered: World War II Honour Roll, National War Memorial of SA, North Terrace, Adelaide
Brother of Flight Sergeant Malcolm Ralph Trout (416904)
On 5 December 1944, Flying Officer Trout, a Wireless Air Gunner, died of an illness in No. 6 RAAF Hospital Heidelberg.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veteran’s Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A705, 166/40/291